The 24″x 30″ works illustrated here were made on site in Botswana. The larger works are based on field sketches but were made in the studio. All works are oil on aluminum panel. The titles are incomplete at this point. Click the thumbnails and click once again to see larger images.
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Posted 31 January 2010
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The following pencil and gouache studies were made in the Okavango Delta of Botswana.
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Posted 12 September 2009
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Woman’s Rock rises from a dry stream bed, whose sand has forever recorded the tracks of animals and humans who cross it.
Rising from the flat landscape like the back of an enormous snake…
the summit of Woman’s rock is gently curved hinting at the enormity of the coil that is hidden below.
And the skin is cracked [...]
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Posted 16 July 2009
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Also tagged: African landscape, Botswana, Botswana crime, Distorted perception, easel, effects of fear, fear, fear of the unknown, kopje, Kumakwane, local legends, no Pula, on edge, python, snake, snake fantasy, travel adventure, Woman’s Rock
